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September 8, 2012

Man violates probation, returns to prison

Henderson gets new conviction in Scioto County

Kenneth Hart The Independent

GREENUP — A man who pleaded in a Greenup County child-sex case in 2010 is going back to prison after violating his probation by receiving an additional felony conviction.

Buford Henderson, 44, acknowledged last week in Greenup Circuit Court that he’d gotten a new conviction in Scioto County. Judge Bob Conley ordered him back to prison to serve the balance of his original 10-year sentence.

Henderson pleaded guilty in January 2010 to two counts of first-degree criminal abuse. He had originally been charged with first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse.

The charges stemmed from Henderson engaging in sexual acts with his former girlfriend’s children. The girlfriend, Christina St. Clair, was convicted in May 2009 of rape and sodomy for sexually abusing her daughters and for allowing Henderson and another former boyfriend to do so.

In pleading guilty to the reduced charges, Henderson agreed to accept a five-year prison sentence on each count, with the terms to run consecutively. According to Greenup Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Maridell Malone, he was released on probation after serving about six months.

Henderson was convicted in January in Scioto County of resisting arrest and obstructing official business, Malone said. Both charges are felonies.

Henderson, who’s currently lodged in the Greenup County Detention Center, will be eligible for parole after he has served 20 percent, or two years, of his original sentence, Malone said. In addition to the six months he served after his conviction, he has credit for some time he spent in custody prior to pleading guilty, she said.

St. Clair, 33, of South Shore, is serving her 20-year sentence at the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex.

The other boyfriend, Dustin Wood, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and was sentenced to five years on each count, with the terms to run consecutively. However, under the terms of his plea agreement, he was released from custody and placed on probation after spending 15 months behind bars. He had credit for 399 days served at the time of his sentencing.

In convicting St. Clair, jurors found she made her daughters, who were 5 and 6 at the time of the abuse, perform sexual acts on her and threatened to punish them if they did not do likewise to Henderson and Wood.

St. Clair’s attorneys maintained the girls were coerced into making false allegations against their mother by their paternal grandparents, with whom they were placed after the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services removed them from Craft’s home because of her refusal to end her relationship with Henderson.

St. Clair and Wood dated during a period in which she and Henderson were not together, according to testimony.

KENNETH HART can be reached at khart@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2654.

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